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  Mike V • Talk 06:44, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The Feed. Since you had some involvement with the The Feed redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 07:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I know you just created this category and are populating it. I reverted the insertion of the cat on Reinhardt's and Kozinski's articles (both are on my watchlist). I haven't looked at the others. I realize that Reinhardt and Kozinski may indeed be feeders of law clerks to the Superme Court, but nowhere in the articles does it say that. This cat is no different from any other cat. It must be supported in the body of the article. I thought I'd leave this message as I'm not fond of reverting other administrators without at least explaining myelf. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 04:43, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why didn't you just wait a bit? I'm demonstrably in the process of bringing the article live. ÷seresin 04:45, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what you mean by "demonstrably", but in any case you shouldn't be putting the cart before the horse. Add the material that supports the cat and then add the cat. Why should your cat be treated differently from any other cat? Sounds like Passover. Anyway, I'm going to bed. Take care.--Bbb23 (talk) 05:01, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As in, I've spent the past hour putting the article in the main space, nominating it for DYK, creating redirects, adding links to it, creating that category and then categorizing the judges. Instead of continuing that process efficiently, I'm having to root around for the citations necessary to add them to your two pet articles before I was ready. I appreciate the courtesy you extend me because I'm an administrator (!) but perhaps have some substantive courtesy next time. ÷seresin 05:08, 9 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The issues have been resolved. Prhartcom (talk) 14:35, 13 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:United States feeder judges, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor ^(talk) 06:38, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I see you implemented a indefinite page protection in 2009 for Anonymous (group)- please remove it. Thank you ! --ChristopheT (talk) 13:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Christoph. See here. ÷seresin 21:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - appreciated --ChristopheT (talk) 21:31, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry to bother you, sir. I am attempting to recreate a page for my company, InfoCepts, that you deleted more than a decade ago. I would like to assure you that over the last decade, InfoCepts has grown well as a BA-IM company, and now has the capability to become a well-sourced, regularly searched page. Kindly allow us to create a page that will assuredly be mutually valuable to both parties. Sincerely, AshVaidya (talk)

Responded on your talk page. ÷seresin 12:38, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Awesome

Ten years!

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